Eight masterpieces, including a Renoir, recovered after 20 years
Last Updated: Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 5:29 PM ET
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Dutch officials say they've uncovered eight 17th- and 19th-century paintings by several masters, including ones by Pissarro and Renoir, that were missing for more than two decades.
The paintings had disappeared from an art gallery in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht in 1987.
Police say they received information the works had been put up for sale. They found six in the town of Valkenburg on Thursday and then another two in the town of Walem. Both towns are in the Maastricht area.
"Some of the artworks had been folded and were seriously damaged," said a statement from the prosecutor's office on Saturday.
Police arrested a 45-year-old German man who's a resident of Dubai, his 62-year-old Belgian mother and a 66-year-old man from Walem. The three are to appear in court on Monday.
"The suspects were apparently trying to sell the artworks to the insurance company that had paid out 2.27 million euros [$3.69 million Cdn] after they went missing," the statement said.
The works were by David Teniers, Willem van de Velde, Jan Brueghel de Jonge, Eva Gonzales, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Desire Trouillebert.
No other details were divulged.
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